Wednesday 30 July 2003

Detainee starts labour, The Australian, 30 July, 2003.

Detainee starts labour: [1 - All-round Country Edition]

Thea Williams, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 July 2003: 6.
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HEAVILY pregnant immigration detainee Roqia Bakhtiyari was airlifted yesterday from Port Augusta hospital to the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide in premature labour, refugee advocates claim.
HEAVILY pregnant immigration detainee Roqia Bakhtiyari was airlifted yesterday from Port Augusta hospital to the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide in premature labour, refugee advocates claim.
Greens refugee spokeswoman Pamela Curr said Mrs Bakhtiyari, who was being detained in the Woomera housing project, was being watched last night by two guards in the hospital and was not allowed any visitors.
"The least this woman deserves is the sort of care and attention any woman giving birth needs," Ms Curr said. "To be in a foreign country, where you don't understand the language and you know your baby is being born prematurely, must be incredibly distressing."
The Australian reported yesterday that immigration authorities intended to issue Australian travel documents to forcibly deport the Bakhtiyari family to Pakistan.
Mrs Bakhtiyari had refused to sign documents enabling her to be sent to Pakistan, but a spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said a way had been found around the problem.
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Teachers planning national strike, The Australian, 30 July, 2003. Page One.

Teachers planning national strike: [1 - All-round Country Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 July 2003: 1.
Teachers unions in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia plan the first co-ordinated interstate walkout on September 17, blaming frustrated pay claims and state governments ignoring demands for smaller class sizes and better conditions.
NSW teachers yesterday voted overwhelmingly to strike after the Carr Government offered a "miserable" 6 per cent pay rise in response to their 25 per cent pay claim.
NSW Education Minister Andrew Refshauge said the Government did not support strike action.

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TEACHERS in three states are poised to take unprecedented 24- hour strike action.
Teachers unions in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia plan the first co-ordinated interstate walkout on September 17, blaming frustrated pay claims and state governments ignoring demands for smaller class sizes and better conditions.
NSW teachers yesterday voted overwhelmingly to strike after the Carr Government offered a "miserable" 6 per cent pay rise in response to their 25 per cent pay claim.
Victorian teachers agreed a fortnight ago to support interstate strike action after the Bracks Government returned their 10 per cent pay claim with a maximum offer of 3 per cent.
The executive of the West Australian branch of the Australian Education Union will vote on Friday or Saturday on whether to join the action if their claim is not met by the end of the week.
President Pat Byrne said West Australian teachers asked the Gallop Government six months ago for a 10 per cent pay rise and to address class sizes, student behaviour and "bureaucratic" workloads placed on teachers.
"It's likely the executive will decide it is unhappy with the lack of response and it will then consider the options," she said.
While teachers in Queensland and the ACT also are considering taking part, teachers in South Australia and the Northern Territory have recently settled pay claims, but will lend in-principle support to the strike.
Almost 25,000 public school teachers in NSW stopped work yesterday for two hours to consider striking.
NSW Teachers Federation president Maree O'Halloran said teachers wanted an immediate 5 per cent pay rise followed by a 20 per cent increase over two years.
"Only just over 100 (teachers) voted against the strike," Ms O'Halloran said.
"This level of support for industrial action is
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unprecedented. The teachers have quite clearly rejected the Government's miserable offer and indicated they are prepared to take industrial action to get salary justice."
The federation will put its pay claim to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission on September 10.
Ms O'Halloran said teachers were "bitterly determined" to fight for better wages and conditions. They and their interstate colleagues were particularly concerned that, without more attractive salaries, the profession would struggle to attract and retain people.
NSW Education Minister Andrew Refshauge said the Government did not support strike action.
"All it does is penalise parents and students," Dr Refshauge said. "I recognise that teachers play an invaluable role but this is about what the Government can afford and what the taxpayer can afford."
Every 1 per cent the Teachers Federation sought would cost taxpayers $52million a year, he said.
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Tuesday 29 July 2003

Public teachers stop work to vote on three-state strike, The Australian, 29 July, 2003.

Public teachers stop work to vote on three-state strike: [6 - NSW Country Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 July 2003: 6.
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Ms [Maree O'Halloran] said members were also reporting increased incidents of abuse and violence from a small number of students, and she would be using the stopwork meeting to call for a "violence audit" of all schools.
Deputy Director-General for Schools in the NSW Department of Education, Alan Laughlin, said parents should check with their children's schools if there was any doubt about what supervision would be provided.
Both the NSW Government and the Opposition refused to comment on the strike.
NSW public school teachers will stop work for two hours this morning, leaving many parents scrabbling to make alternative arrangements.
Teachers around the state will be linked by a Sky Channel broadcast to vote on a proposed three-state strike on September 17.
The stopwork meeting is also designed to bring members up to date with the NSW Teachers Federation's wage campaign and to protest against 1000 departmental staff cuts.
Federation president Maree O'Halloran said the primary reason for the meeting was for teachers to consider a 6 per cent offer over two years.
The union is seeking 20 per cent.
"We know that it is a large pay claim, but we need a significant breakthrough because we are facing a teacher shortage," she said.
"In five years' time, one in four teachers will be eligible for retirement. A third of qualified teachers are working in other industries because they can earn more."
She said that teachers in Victoria and Western Australia were considering joining the action.
Ms O'Halloran said members were also reporting increased incidents of abuse and violence from a small number of students, and she would be using the stopwork meeting to call for a "violence audit" of all schools.
"We firmly believe that the Department of Education and Training is failing to provide a safe system of work for some teachers," she said.
"This is not only negligent but a clear breach of law."
Most schools are expected to provide minimal student supervision during the stopwork meeting.
Deputy Director-General for Schools in the NSW Department of Education, Alan Laughlin, said parents should check with their children's schools if there was any doubt about what supervision would be provided.
Both the NSW Government and the Opposition refused to comment on the strike.
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Monday 28 July 2003

Achieving Common Sense: The Case for Shared Parenting, with Michael Green, Dads On The Air, 28 July, 2003.




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Friday 25 July 2003

Copyright Agency Limited payments, 25 July, 2003.

These payments, which are for students mostly photocopying works in libraries, would arrive once a year. They were never a great deal, but they were a handy bit of pocket money.




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Tuesday 22 July 2003

Pay up, Coldplay star told, The Australian, 22 July, 2003.

Pay up, Coldplay star told: [3 - All-round Metro Edition]

Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 July 2003: 5.
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COMPENSATION is all it would take for Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin to avoid having to return to Australia to face charges of malicious injury to property after an incident at Byron Bay on the weekend.
Coldplay will perform a third concert in Sydney tonight before leaving for Auckland for one concert and then on to Japan, Thailand and back to Britain.
COMPENSATION is all it would take for Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin to avoid having to return to Australia to face charges of malicious injury to property after an incident at Byron Bay on the weekend.
The brooding, critically acclaimed pop star was charged after allegedly trying to break the windscreen of a car driven by freelance photographer Jon Lister during the Splendour in the Grass music festival at Byron Bay.
Martin, the fiance of Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow, who is on tour with him, was enraged after Lister refused to erase from his digital camera pictures of the British singer surfing.
Martin was interviewed by police at his exclusive hotel, Rae's on Watego, where he was issued with a notice to attend Byron Bay Local Court on October 8 over malicious damage to property.
The photographer's employer, who owns the damaged car, told the news service AAP he would not pursue legal action against Martin if the damage was paid for.
"We are not intending on pushing the issue in the court, we just want the damage paid for," said the Sydney photo agency director, who did not wish to be named.
"We wish it hadn't become a story."
The band has done a string of sold-out concerts through Europe in recent months promoting their last album A Rush of Blood to theHead.
Coldplay will perform a third concert in Sydney tonight before leaving for Auckland for one concert and then on to Japan, Thailand and back to Britain.
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Russell crowing: he's to be a dad, The Australian, 22 July, 2003.

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Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 July 2003: 3.
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[Ray Martin] and [RUSSELL Crowe], who clearly know each other well, kept up a genial banter. The interview opened with the two pretending to be on a date, a send-up of Crowe's present long crop of hair.
RUSSELL Crowe and Danielle Spencer are expecting a baby in the new year.
Crowe told Ray Martin on the Nine Network's A Current Affair last night that Spencer was 14 weeks and three days pregnant.
The couple married just 15 weeks ago, on April 7, at a lavish ceremony on the film star's farm at Nana Glen, near Coffs Harbour, in NSW.
In a pre-wedding interview, Crowe said he wanted children as soon as possible. Guests at the wedding said that Spencer, 32, spoke of a pact between the two that she would be pregnant by the time he was 40. The Oscar-winning movie star was wed on his 39th birthday.
Martin and Crowe, who clearly know each other well, kept up a genial banter. The interview opened with the two pretending to be on a date, a send-up of Crowe's present long crop of hair.
Then Martin asked: "Are you pregnant?"
"It's time you told everybody -- you are my choice for these sorts of things ... Danny is 14 weeks and three days."
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Monday 21 July 2003

Domestic Violence: The Great Debate, With Anne Lewis, Dads On The Air, 21 July, 2003.





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Paltrow's rock star charged, The Australian, 21 July, 2003. Page One.

Paltrow's rock star charged: [8 - NSW Metro Edition]

John Stapleton, Sophie Tedmanson. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 July 2003: 1.
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If [Chris Martin] was upset by the alleged incident he was not showing it last night, when Coldplay closed the Splendour in the Grass music festival in Byron Bay. "We love this festival, it is f...ing great," he said. The set ended with a rendition of What A Wonderful World. Gwyneth Paltrow was in attendance, watching the band's performance from the side of the stage, singing and dancing.
LEAD singer of British pop band Coldplay, Chris Martin, will face court after an incident in Byron Bay yesterday.
The singer is alleged to have attempted to break the windscreen of a freelance Sydney photographer. He is scheduled to appear in Byron Bay Local Court on October 8 on a charge of malicious damage.
The photographer, 47-year-old Jon Lister, is reported to have followed the singer to Seven Mile Beach, where Martin went surfing with a friend. When he emerged from the surf, Martin is alleged to have become infuriated, saying he did not want pictures of him surfing being circulated.
Lister says the singer demanded that he erase the photographs form his digital camera.
Shortly afterwards, when he reached the beach exit, it is alleged Martin tried to break the photographer's windscreen and also tried to deflate his car's tyres. He allegedly ignored initial attempts by the photographer to stop him.
Martin has a reputation as a vegetarian teetotaller, known for being polite but private. Fans commented that the alleged behaviour was out of character.
If Martin was upset by the alleged incident he was not showing it last night, when Coldplay closed the Splendour in the Grass music festival in Byron Bay. "We love this festival, it is f...ing great," he said. The set ended with a rendition of What A Wonderful World. Gwyneth Paltrow was in attendance, watching the band's performance from the side of the stage, singing and dancing.
Martin thanked organisers and said the band was happy to travel to the other side of the world for Australian audiences. They will perform in Sydney tonight and tomorrow night before heading to Japan.
Review -- Arts, Page 7
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